John Templeton Foundation donations made to Trustees of Boston College

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Basic donor information

ItemValue
Country United States
Wikipedia pagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Templeton_Foundation
Facebook username TempletonFoundation
Websitehttps://www.templeton.org/
Donations URLhttps://www.templeton.org/grants
Twitter usernametempleton_fdn
Page on philosophy informing donationshttps://www.templeton.org/about/vision-mission-impact
Grant application process pagehttps://www.templeton.org/grants/apply-for-grant
Data entry method on Donations List WebsiteSQL insertion commands generated by script https://github.com/riceissa/templeton-foundation

This entity is also a donee.

Full donor page for donor John Templeton Foundation

Basic donee information

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Country

Full donee page for donee Trustees of Boston College

Donor–donee relationship

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Donor–donee donation statistics

Cause areaCountMedianMeanMinimum10th percentile 20th percentile 30th percentile 40th percentile 50th percentile 60th percentile 70th percentile 80th percentile 90th percentile Maximum
Overall 3 300,046 357,617 261,130 261,130 261,130 261,130 300,046 300,046 300,046 511,676 511,676 511,676 511,676
Human Sciences 2 261,130 386,403 261,130 261,130 261,130 261,130 261,130 261,130 511,676 511,676 511,676 511,676 511,676
Character Virtue Development 1 300,046 300,046 300,046 300,046 300,046 300,046 300,046 300,046 300,046 300,046 300,046 300,046 300,046

Donation amounts by cause area and year

If you hover over a cell for a given cause area and year, you will get a tooltip with the number of donees and the number of donations.

Note: Cause area classification used here may not match that used by donor for all cases.

Cause area Number of donations Total 2015 2014
Human Sciences (filter this donor) 2 772,806.00 511,676.00 261,130.00
Character Virtue Development (filter this donor) 1 300,046.00 300,046.00 0.00
Total 3 1,072,852.00 811,722.00 261,130.00

Graph of spending by cause area and year (incremental, not cumulative)

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Graph of spending by cause area and year (cumulative)

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Full list of documents in reverse chronological order (0 documents)

There are no documents associated with this combination of donor and donee.

Full list of donations in reverse chronological order (3 donations)

Graph of all donations (with known year of donation), showing the timeframe of donations

Graph of donations and their timeframes
Amount (current USD)Amount rank (out of 3)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
511,676.0012015Human Scienceshttps://templeton.org/grants/grant-database-- For project The transformation of lived religion in urban Latin America: a study of contemporary Latin Americans’ experience of the transcendent; Project leaders: Gustavo Morello,Nestor Da Costa. Affected regions: USA; affected countries: FIXME.
300,046.0022015Character Virtue Developmenthttps://templeton.org/grants/grant-database-- For project Cognitive Underpinnings and Consequences of Generosity; Project leaders: Sara Cordes. Affected regions: USA; affected countries: FIXME.
261,130.0032014Human Scienceshttps://templeton.org/grants/grant-database-- For project A Social Cognitive Developmental Approach to Folk Representations of God’s Mind; Project leaders: Liane Young,Adam Waytz. Affected regions: USA; affected countries: FIXME.